Filipp Golikov

Filipp Golikov (30 July 1900-29 July 1980) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union and the commander of the Bryansk Front and the Voronezh Front during World War II.

Biography
Filipp Golikov was born on 30 July 1900 in Borisova, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire. Golikov saw service in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War as a political commissar, and he graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1933. In 1939, he led the Soviet 6th Army during the invasion of Poland and later fought in the Winter War, and he served as head of the GRU from 1940 to 1941. Joseph Stalin ignored Golikov's reports on the planned German invasion of the Soviet Union, leading to Nazi Germany achieving complete surprise during Operation Barbarossa. During the war, he led the Bryansk Front and the Voronezh Front against the Axis forces, and he was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense in April 1943, being responsible for repatrating Red Army prisoners-of-war. In 1961, he became a Marshal of the Soviet Union, and he died in Moscow in 1980.